NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 and ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.5x more core clock speed: 980 MHz vs 400 MHz
49x more texture fill rate: 78.4 billion / sec vs 1.6 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 130 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 64 MB
81.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4014 vs 49
2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 484 vs 233

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	6 September 2012 vs 1 June 2004
Core clock speed	980 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	78.4 billion / sec vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 64 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	4014 vs 49
PassMark - G2D Mark	484 vs 233

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE

83.3x more memory clock speed: 500 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Memory clock speed	500 MHz vs 6.0 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

4014

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

484

233

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660	ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark	4014	49
PassMark - G2D Mark	484	233
Geekbench - OpenCL	11372
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	30.505
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	705.293
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.085
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	35.416
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	62.69
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3365
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3581
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3690
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3365
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1307

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660	ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	Rage 9
Code name	GK106	M24
Launch date	6 September 2012	1 June 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$229
Place in performance rating	757	754
Price now	$349.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	14.35
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1033 MHz
Core clock speed	980 MHz	400 MHz
CUDA cores	960
Floating-point performance	1,981 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	960
Texture fill rate	78.4 billion / sec	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt
Transistor count	2,540 million	75 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	Internal
Display Connectors	One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI..., 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort	No outputs
G-SYNC support
HDCP
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI Express 3.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	9.5" (24.1 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	One 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0b
OpenGL	4.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	144.2 GB / s	8 GB / s
Memory bus width	192-bit GDDR5	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	6.0 GB/s	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
3D Gaming
3D Vision
Adaptive VSync
CUDA
FXAA
GPU Boost
SLI
TXAA